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- Nov 07, 2020
School Quotes
On learning, growing up and finding your own pace.
These quotes cover school in different forms: a childhood spent in Sunday school, being a late bloomer among faster-moving classmates, and skipping formal film training entirely to learn a craft directly. For lighter school-themed content, see our Jokes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Hello
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I edit, I'm not from the school of Hello, I'm a genius, so everybody shut up. I'm from the school of Let's play it once in front of an audience, and then I'll tell you where it is going.
- High School
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I was a diminutive, arty kid, I felt like a misfit in high school - but who doesn't?
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
At school, I was always a central midfielder from a young age. Then, when I joined Villa at 16, the pre-season didn't go too well, so they looked at me as a centre-half.
- Dividing
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I had it to do over, I might have finished school first, then devoted all my time to StumbleUpon instead of dividing my time between the two. In the end, however, it was probably good to take the time I did.
- Enrollment
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started dancing when I was about 15 or 16 in my high school drama club, and then I liked it so much that they offered dual enrollment classes. So my senior year, I ended up taking college dance courses while I was in high school because I had good grades.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was trying to be someone for the first part of high school. I was kind of this nerdy kid who didn't want to be a nerd anymore. Even talking about it, I'm embarrassed. I'm like, 'Ugh, why did you care what people thought?'
- Charter
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't agree with boarding school. It's not something that I would do with my children, but I think it's something that kind of exists in England in a traditional way, and you do form very close relationships with the girls you go to school with. But it is a strange thing to live in an environment which is solely female.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have sisters who act, and I'd always seen it as their thing. I was never in the school plays like them - I wanted to be a painter.
- Program
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was always very theatrical. I went to theater school in a conservatory program.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if I was 5-foot-3, I would have been really popular and dated a lot more in high school. I didn't develop like the pretty girl.
- Present
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was around eight, I learned how to touch-type at school, and I received a computer as a present. I started writing plays, and for many years I thought I would be a playwright.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always knew when I graduated from high school, I'd go to college. I never thought about what I was walking away from... I just wanted to study literature and writing.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to school to study literature and writing, even though I didn't end up really doing that in the end.
- Being
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started missing acting when I was in school, and I realized after being in the business after however many years that I was really interested in film.
- Parents
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- Nov 07, 2020